Liberated Dissonance

Anyone who knows me knows I dislike change, particularly when it is unannounced, and Google has just decided to change Blogger. There are lo...

This winner from EH: Richard Starkey Lost his car key, But Ringo Starr Didn't need a car. And one more from me: Elliott Carter Could not...

This from EH in response to my first clerihew: The wife of Johann Sebastian Bach, possessed of only a sock for protection, created for orche...

My Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms defines a "clerihew" as "a form of comic verse named after its inventor, Edmun...

Thanks to my sister, I scored a free ticket to the Philadelphia Opera Company's Wednesday evening performance of The Abduction from the ...

Socialism and phony theology aside, the man is cool: If the election goes south, he could always host the reboot of Soul Train.

To follow up on my previous post &#8212 my favorite recording of the Brahms Symphonies is by Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic....

... now ain’t that alliterative? Got home about an hour and a half ago from a Sunday afternoon concert by the Bryn Athyn Orchestra. (The lin...

The International Orange Chorale is raising money to record Milton Babbitt's Music for the Mass. Read all about it at Iron Tongue of Mid...

I spent the afternoon of Feb. at the AMC theater at Neshaminy Mall watching the Met’s HD broadcast of Götterdämmerung in the company of my ...